Ancestral Sea: Where Lives and Memories Reside - Terue Yamauchi, HFBK Hamburg - HFBK
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07.05.2026
Ancestral Sea: Where Lives and Memories Reside
Lecture by Terue Yamauchi, Artist and Film Maker, Fukuoka (JP) as part of the symposium re-story-ation: Artistic Research and More-Than-Human Relationalities on May 7, 2026 at HFBK Hamburg.
Ancestral Sea: Where Lives and Memories Reside"Crossing Tides" (2018) emerged from a decade-long relationship with an elderly woman—the last remaining ama (sea women / female free diver) on an island between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, who embodied a life deeply attuned to the sea and its tides. In this talk, I will share a selection of key excerpts from the film and reflect on the process of its making, discussing how I came to understand that relationships—and their storytelling—are not something we can simply "make" or "develop," but rather something that emerges organically over time through ongoing negotiation with constantly shifting, living elements, including the artist, participants, the environment, the weather, and all that it shapes.